Tropical Storm Fay

We had tons of rain this week due to Tropical Storm Fay. It rained a little each day earlier in the week and then nonstop from Friday to Sunday with some strong winds at times. We kept hearing branches and pinecones fall on the roof and balconies. A few times we heard really loud thudding sounds but didn't see what had fallen.

The city was giving out free sandbags to anyone who needed them this weekend. At least 12 deaths in the US were blamed on Tropical Storm Fay. I heard that one utility worker died when a tree fell on him while he was working on restoring power to some homes. How awful!

Here is the creek behind our house on Saturday just before 1 PM (you can see a huge puddle forming on the lowest part of our yard between the creek and where I took the picture from our balcony):

And here is the creek behind our house on Saturday just before 3 PM (it totally flooded--the creek joined with the huge puddle and became one big rushing creek--and took over about half of the yard directly behind our house):

The runoff for the water from the highway is along our property on the other side of the city fence that runs perpendicular to the creek so that water was joining the flood party here:

I prayed that no large branches or trees would fall on our house or cars and my prayers were answered. This large branch fell outside our fenced area:

And this large branch fell inside our fenced area (thankfully it didn't damage the fence):

The water was all the way up to the 3 trees on the right for a couple of hours (a nice little patch of sand was left behind so maybe Alisa can play in it):

Unfortunately, our only banana tree that was producing bananas so far fell over during the storm:


The bananas were not ripe enough to eat so we are sad that we don't get to try any this year after all:

Here is a video of our flooded creek: